We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our
means.
- [Benevolence]

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute
and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid
unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing
can be more foolish.
- [Danger]

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be
seen!
- [Vanity]

What gift has Providence bestowed on man, that is so dear to him
as his children?
- [Children]

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be
becoming.
- [Honesty]

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by
labor?
- [Labor]

What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than
his children?
- [Proverbs]

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is
graceful.
- [Grace]

Whatever that be, which thinks, which understands, which wills,
which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and, upon that
account, must necessarily be eternal.
- [Soul]

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a
memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into
the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences,
and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and
am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things
within itself cannot be mortal.
- [Immortality]

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind
which is called avarice.
- [Avarice]

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might,
and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
- [Resistance]

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of
the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to
bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which
shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace.
- [Wisdom]

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not
to trust himself on the narrow edge.
[Lat., Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum
non debeat se sapiens committere.]
- Academici (IV, 21) [Lying]